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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in Ireland (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ray Nolan
Angel
4 Ireland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, News, Software
Shane Naughton
Angel
3 Ireland, United States Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Apps $972k–$3M
Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media
Gareth Lambe
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel Tourism, Payments, Software $494k–$1.6M
Tom Kennedy
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Series A Travel, Video, Retail
Hal Philipp
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel News, SaaS, Big Data
Eamon Leonard
Angel
2 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Software, Messaging $531k–$1M
Nigel Byrne
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality $878k–$1.6M
Michael Dwyer
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Jim Mullins
Angel
1 Ireland News, SaaS, Big Data
Tim Cederman-Haysom
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed News, SaaS, Audio $85k–$1.4M
Cem Sertoglu
Angel
1 United States, Turkey, Germany Seed, Series A, Series D E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM $455k–$300M
Jim Fields
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Barry Lunn
Angel
1 Ireland Seed, Angel Sensor, Software, Aerospace $1.4M–$6.2M
Tom Preston-Werner
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools $150k–$30M
Blaine Cook
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Audio, Video, Events
Dave Burke
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Events, Travel, Ticketing
Lachy Groom
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $2M–$80M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Ireland, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Angus McMillian
Angel
1 Ireland News, SaaS, Big Data
Tony Smurfit
Angel
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Publishing, Video, Privacy $2.9M–$4.5M
Barry Pitcher
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media
Sean Blanchfield
Angel
1 Ireland Convertible Note Software, Analytics, Advertising
Armando Biondi
Angel
1 United States, Spain, Ireland Seed SaaS, Software, Big Data $150k–$2M
Julie Meyer
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Events, Mobile, Leisure
Per Brilioth
Angel
1 Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series B, Seed Apps, Software, Transportation $106k–$100M
Julien Nguyen
Angel
1 India, Latvia, Germany Seed, Series A Internet, Social Media, Music
John Corcoran
Angel
1 Ireland Series A Video, Publishing, Social Media
Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Events, Software, Publishing
Paul Peters
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Events, Software, Publishing
Niccolo Maisto
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland Seed, Angel, Series A Gaming, eSports, Software
Michele Attisani
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Marc Dassler
Angel
1 Ireland Seed SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
Matt Haughey
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Seed Audio, Video, Events
Kumar Malavalli
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Matthew Le Merle
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A iOS, Apps, Local
Andrej Henkler
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement
Joi Ito
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Mobile, Software, Internet
Jesper Brok
Angel
1 Denmark, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities
Esther Dyson
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Russian Federation Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Medical
Bobby Healy
Angel
1 Angel, Series A
Prabhu Goel
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Series C, Seed, Angel Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
David Shackleton
Angel
1 Ireland Seed, Angel Internet, App Marketing, Consumer Research
Joshua Schachter
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet
Niall Harbison
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Photo Sharing
Paddy Flynn
Angel
1 Ireland Angel SaaS, Machine Learning, Video
Sven Fund
Angel
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
Colin Wiel
Angel
1 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
Thomas Hesse
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Ireland Seed, Convertible Note Advertising, Restaurants, Media and Entertainment
Graham Stirling
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Art, RFID, Mobile
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Ray Nolan
Angel · 4 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, News, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
  • Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
  • REFLEX Gaming
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Shane Naughton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $972k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustev — Stop online fraud with Trustev, a new approach.
  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.
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Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Gareth Lambe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$1.6M; Angel $494k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
  • CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
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Tom Kennedy
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Video, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
  • Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Hal Philipp
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Eamon Leonard
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
  • Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
  • PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.
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Nigel Byrne
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
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Michael Dwyer
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
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Jim Mullins
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Jim Mullins

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Tim Cederman-Haysom
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Tim Cederman-Haysom is Product leader at Pyn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Audio
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adioso — Adioso is a better search and booking app for leisure travel.It allows users to:* search without constraints on destinations & dates* follow destinations or search terms to receive deals, trip recommendations, and other content to help them plan and book their trip.Its key benefits are:* Travelers find it much easier to choosethe very best travel options available* Airlines & suppliers can focus messages and offers at highly qualified customers.Founded in Australia in 2008 by Fenn Bailey and Tom Howard, Adioso was in the Winter ‘09 class of Y Combinator, and has received seed funding from Silicon Valley and travel industry investors.As of March 2012, Adioso has a team of eight engineers and designers in Australia and the US, and is moving rapidly towards the launch of some major new product features and global airline coverage.
  • Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
  • OwnLocal — We help local media companies to power their digital services by automatically converting traditional print ads into powerful online marketing campaigns.
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Cem Sertoglu
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Cem Sertoglu is an internet and technology venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is currently a Managing Partner at Bek Ventures, a European venture investment firm focusing on technology and health technology companies.He is also a managing partner at Young Turk Ventures, an internet-focused investment firm. From 2008 to 2009, Sertoglu was apartner at iLab Ventures, the venture capital arm of AccessTurkey Capital Group that is focused on early-stage through late-stage growth equity investments, primarily in on-line consumer services companies and technology-driven business services companies in Turkey.Prior to these, Sertoglu founded SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees. He served as its CEO from 1999 to 2005. The company was bought by Oracle in 2012.Sertoglu's investment highlights include: GittiGidiyor, the first major Turkish internet exit to eBay in 2011; YemekSepeti, the leading online meal delivery marketplace in Turkey; Grupanya, Turkey’s leading daily deal business; and Wikimart.ru, a leading Russian e-commerce platform. Other investments include: HipWay, CivicSolar, Lofty, Lime&Tonic, Gezlong and Vivense Home & Living.Sertoglu attended the University of Texas at Austin and received his bachelor's degree in Economics in 1993. He also attended Robert College from 1982 to 1989. He publishes a blog on Venture Capital and technology, titled SortiPreneur.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$8M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series D $33M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HipWay — Hipway is an online travel company maintaining two websites - hiplcub.ru and hipway.ru. Hipclub.ru - is a private online travel club running 10-15 flash sale deals per week. The deals include hotel stays and hotel+flight packages. Hipway.ru - is a travel package specialist offering wide range of hotel+flight packages of Russian touroperators. Hipway recieved angel funding from superangels such as Michael van Swaaij and Chamath Palihapitya in 2010.
  • idemama — Idemama is an online platform that provides its users with web and graphic design services. It is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Lime&Tonic — Consumer demand for unique ways to spend scarce leisure time is increasing. Hospitality merchants (particularly restaurants) struggle to attract and retain consumers. Delivery of services is not personalized due to exceedingly high labor costs. Via mobile, L&T curates online marketplace focusing on discovery (vs. search) of the bestculinary experiences and unique activities. $2.0 trillion leisure sector with a nice focus on the $160bn fine dining and $227bn activities segments.Proven success with leading merchants including Mandarin Oriental, Intercontinental, Four Seasons, Park Hyatt. Over 1,600 experiences created since company launch.www.limeandtonic.com
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Jim Fields
Angel · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Jim Fields is the Founder and Managing Director of Relay, a Beijing-based cross-border marketing agency that helps visionary Chinese tech companies to expand in Western markets. Fields founded Relay with the ambition to create the first truly global Chinese brand.With over 15 years of studying Chinese and 8 years in China, Fields’ focus has beenon helping Chinese tech brands creatively and effectively communicate and engage with Western audiences. His work has gained millions of views across various platforms, both in China and internationally, for clients such as Xiaomi, Tencent, Lenovo, Garmin, Hover Camera and many others.Prior to founding Relay, Fields was responsible for launching British agency Studio Output’s Chinese business arm, which grew over 300% in revenue during his three years with the company. Before this, Fields began his career in Silicon Valley at Adobe and has also worked at Nokia and Reckitt Benckiser in Beijing.With a wealth of knowledge of Chinese business culture and over 15 years speaking Mandarin Chinese, Fields has been tapped as an industry expert to speak at events including: CHat Shanghai, HAX, China Accelerator events, DayDayUp, Tsinghua X-Lab and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
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Barry Lunn
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sensor, Software, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
  • Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
  • Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
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Tom Preston-Werner
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Steve Jang is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3.1M; Series A $10M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenPipe — OpenPipe is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers software developers to construct datasets and refine prompts using a cost-effective model. The platform works by automatically capturing existing prompts and completions and then using them to fine-tune a drop-in replacement.
  • Alinia AI — Alinia AI is an alignment platform that allows enterprises to implement generative AI in a safe and controlled manner, governed by their rules and operations.
  • MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
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Blaine Cook
Angel · Nelson, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Blaine Cook is the former Architect at Twitter. Before his departure he focused on building and maintaining Twitter’s Jabber-based real-time backend infrastructure that tracks and distributes millions of updates every day to users on the Web, instant messaging, and SMS.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Video, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Typedream — Create stunning landing pages with just 1 sentence with AI.
  • Little Bird — Little Bird powers fast and focused engagement for modern marketers in tech, entertainment, and financial services. Its solution helps marketers overcome the noise and chaos of the social web, to map and engage with the most influential subject matter experts online. Little Bird helps marketing organizations build social capital, expand theirrelevant reach, and grow their businesses.
  • Planetary — Planetary is a humane decentralized social network. We've built an open protocol and platform for social media and software. A place where you control your data and relationships. This new platform does for social media what open source did for software, creating a common platform for all to build upon secure scuttlebutt.Social media is thepublic sphere and it needs to be owned and controlled by the people who create it.
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Dave Burke
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Dave Burke

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  • Industry: Events, Travel, Ticketing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coras — Coras is changing the way tickets are sold online. Our platform lets customers buy tickets for any event or activity, through websites they already use.
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Lachy Groom
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $9M–$32M; Series B $16M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
  • Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
  • Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Angus McMillian
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Angus McMillian

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Tony Smurfit
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Video, Privacy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
  • Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Barry Pitcher
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Barry Pitcher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Sean Blanchfield
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Sean Blanchfield studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Advertising
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PageFair — PageFair’s mission is to sustain the open web by re-establishing a fair deal between users and content creators. The company does this by helping website owners and publishers detect and measure adblock, and protecting advertising inventory from being blocked.The company has two products: 1) PageFair Analytics, which is used by thousands ofpublishers for free, and measures adblock on over 11 billion pageviews per month, and 2) PageFair Ads, which serves advertising in a manner that adblockers are unable to circumvent, and solves the speed, privacy, and UX issues that cause adblocking in the first place.PageFair's founders personally experienced the damage adblocking can do to a website. While they recognize that visitors need to defend themselves from distracting, intrusive, inappropriate, disingenuous or malicious advertising, the rise of adblocking is now leading to the death of quality free websites.PageFair is an international startup based in Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2012, the company was initially funded by its founders with additional seed capital from Tribal Ventures, Frontline Ventures, and Enterprise Ireland. Thoudands of publishers now use PageFair to measure the extent to which they are affected by adblocking and to display advertising to adblockers.PageFair is the global authority on adblocking trends, cited in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, Advertising Age, and others.
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Armando Biondi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.
  • Cloud Campaign — The only white-label SMM platform built to support rapidly growing agencies. Sign up for a free trial to see how Cloud Campaign can transform your business!
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Julie Meyer
Angel · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Julie Meyer is the Founder and CEO at VIVA Investment Partners. She previously worked at VIVA Capital as a Chief Executive Officer. Julie Meyer attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Mobile, Leisure
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SPiCE VC — SPiCE VC will issue regulation-compliant security tokens that will entitle holders to exit revenues.SPiCE tokens will be liquid and tradable from the start.VCs invest in startups that disrupt industries and reinvent the world we live in, generating billions of dollarsin the process. So it’s remarkable to see how the world of venture capital itselfhas remained untouchedby technologyfor so many years.
  • Lime&Tonic — Consumer demand for unique ways to spend scarce leisure time is increasing. Hospitality merchants (particularly restaurants) struggle to attract and retain consumers. Delivery of services is not personalized due to exceedingly high labor costs. Via mobile, L&T curates online marketplace focusing on discovery (vs. search) of the bestculinary experiences and unique activities. $2.0 trillion leisure sector with a nice focus on the $160bn fine dining and $227bn activities segments.Proven success with leading merchants including Mandarin Oriental, Intercontinental, Four Seasons, Park Hyatt. Over 1,600 experiences created since company launch.www.limeandtonic.com
  • Drive Software Solutions — Fleet management solutions for companies, brokers, lease companies. Control of your vehicles and drivers in a secure, organised application.
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Per Brilioth
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $106k–$5.3M; Series B $6.4M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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Julien Nguyen
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Social Media, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Latvia, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
  • Drivezy — Own the Experience, not the Car
  • OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.
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John Corcoran
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Dublin-based John Corcoran (89) co-founded the hugely successful Paddy Power chain of bookmakers in 1988 along with David Power and Stewart Kenny. At a time when big brands were taking over the market, the three men joined their three independent chains to become a force to be reckoned with. Corcoran remains a shareholder in Paddy Power Betfair,although he has sold off tranches for 'estate planning' purposes in recent years. John died in June 2019.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb is the CEO at Arab Foundation for Education and Culture.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Software, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
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Paul Peters
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Paul Harvey Peters is the non-Executive Board Chair of online conference software provider ExOrdo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Software, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
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Niccolo Maisto
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Niccolo Maisto is the Co-CEO at ESL FACEIT Group. Niccolo Maisto attended NYU Stern School of Business and Bocconi University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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Michele Attisani
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bankaya — Bankaya is the first fintech startup in Mexico built through a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Bankaya's purpose is to empower everyone with the financial and digital freedom to break through barriers and achieve more.
  • Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
  • Hastee — Hastee is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their workforce. It empowers employees to receive their earned pay immediately to increase their choice and financial wellbeing. Companies profit from the improved productivity, engagement, recruitment & retention of their workforce, with zero cost or impact on company cash-flow.Thecompany was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.
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Marc Dassler
Angel · Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Marc Dassler - Chief Executive Officer @ Energy Robotics

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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Matt Haughey
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Matt Haughey - Founder @ MetaFilter

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Video, Events
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
  • Kickstarter — Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.
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Kumar Malavalli
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Kumar Malavalli is the co-author and driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SAN's). Co-founder and former CTO of Brocade Communications; Currently Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of InMage Systems.In February 2003, Kumar was inducted into theSilicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame for his contributions to technology. He also received the Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management from the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for chairing an INCITS committee that developed 17 standards in the area of Storage Area Networks. In 2012 the Computer History Museum published his work on Fibre Channel standards in the T11 Accredited Standards Committee.Kumar's philanthropy in the field of education extends from digital learning centers in rural India to American institutions of higher education. He has established the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research at University of California Santa Cruz, co-founded the Indus Scholastic Management Services and serves as a trustee of the Indus International Schools.He currently invests in and mentors numerous startups in US, Canada and India, served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley Chapter (TiE), and is a trustee of the American India Foundation (AIF). In 2012, Kumar became a trustee of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
  • PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
  • Wedding Party — Inspiration & ideas for your big day
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Matthew Le Merle
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Matthew Le Merle is a Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital and Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com). Matthew was formerly the Co-President of Keiretsu Forum in San Francisco and is an expert on digitization having advised leading technology companies including eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft and PayPal on how to drive and benefit from emerging digital valuepropositions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
  • Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.
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Andrej Henkler
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Entrepreneurial investments High-Tech, Internet and Media companies in US and Europe.Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage,Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form, Fero Labs, Airly, Octane.ai, SmithRX, Contract Book, Quantum Systems, Energy Robotics, Airly, Memberstack, Orchest.ai, Inflammatix, Finway, Roadsurfer, Hive Logistics, AnyMove, Lucid Chart, Fursure, Arrows.to, Halo Industries, Almanac, Velocity Labs, Lumeo, Carbon Health, Almanac, Passion.io, US Bitcoin Corp, OQmented, Maev, LegalOS, Block Green, trypenny, remberg, Kaladin, Marvel Fusion, Arda Therapeutics, The Every Company, CryptoCities, Lenco, SaveIN, GetSona, Noibu, how.fm, Adyton, Hydra Host, Anchor Zero, Gen1e Lifesciences, Pasteur Labs, Windmill.dev, ISEE, ThreeDOT, Workpatterns, Pylon, Cylib,...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
  • Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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Joi Ito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • KLKTN — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
  • Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
  • Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.
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Jesper Brok
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Denmark, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Healper — An online matching platform where you get matched with the mental health tools and psychologist who fits your personality, demography, and personal factors, giving you the best chance for effective therapy. The platform includes an online survey, psychologist profiles, booking and payment systems, reminders, sessions, and feedback systems. Webelieve better mental health starts with having a therapist in whom you trust, have chemistry with, and have relevant expertise. Healper will make a better match between you and the therapist based on professional and personal factors through a safe and smooth user journey. We believe a better match means better therapy, empowering you to get more out of your life.
  • Yard — The community for organisers rebuilding their local tech community
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Esther Dyson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping container easy & deliver it right to your door. Buy a storage container today!
  • Way — Way combines intuitive eating with behavior science for mindful habits. 73.5% of app users report transformed thinking post-program.
  • Humanity — Slow down, or even, reverse your aging.
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Bobby Healy
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Angel, Series A

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
  • Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
  • LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
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Prabhu Goel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Prabhu began his career by joining IBM’s EDA organization at East Fishkill where he was involved with many developments in the area of chip test automation. At IBM he developed the Podem algorithm and other technologies that earned him 4 patents and several awards. He left in 1981 to join Wang Labs where he was exposed to the commercial EDAindustry. He left Wang in 1982 to start Gateway Design Automation – the company that delivered the now industry standard Verilog-XL to the market. In 1989 he sold Gateway to Cadence and continued at Cadence for 2 more years. He left Cadence to become a private venture capitalist. Since 1992, he has been an investor and a Director in a number of private companies. In 1996 he sold one of his companies, Frontline Design Automation, to Avant Corporation for a second venture success. Several of his present investments are in the EDA industry. Prabhu completed his graduate studies from Carnegie Mellon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series C, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Aera Technology — Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company that makes business agility happen. In the era of digital acceleration, Aera helps enterprises around the world transform how they respond to the ever-changing environment
  • PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
  • Verecho — Verecho is a mobile first enterprise software platform to enable companies to automate their people knowledge management. Connect to both structured and unstructured data sets and enable employees to find others based on free text search.
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David Shackleton
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, App Marketing, Consumer Research
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenBack — OpenBack was the only mobile engagement platform with dynamic push notifications and device-side decisions by using mobile edge computing. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
  • Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
  • Hidden Door — Hidden Door is an online game platform for youngsters to delight themselves by discovering, playing, and creating stories.
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Niall Harbison
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Niall Harbison - Founder @ Lovin Media Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Photo Sharing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PicStash — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
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Paddy Flynn
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Machine Learning, Video
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
  • Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
  • Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
  • SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
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Colin Wiel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Colin Wiel is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mynd. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.
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Thomas Hesse
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Thomas Hesse is an experienced leader with over 20 years in music, entertainment, digital business building, and venture capital. He has worked as CEO and senior executive in large and small organizations. Thomas is the Founder and CEO of Consonance Investments, LLC, managing a successful angel & seed investment portfolio. He is the Founderand former CEO of DREAMSTAGE Inc., a paid streaming platform for live performances, acquired by Deezer. He is Senior Advisor to Musixmatch, the world's biggest music lyrics service, acquired by TPG, and to several other startups and investors.Thomas was President of Global Digital Business and US Sales & Distribution for Sony Music Entertainment, driving the transformation of the music business and digital revenue growth for many years. He was also President and Chief Digital Officer for Bertelsmann where he ran the venture funds, M&A, and several major transformational initiatives. He was a Senior Adviser to CVC Capital Partners, and has worked as turnaround CEO. Prior to Sony, Thomas was EVP and Chief Strategy Officer at music major BMG where he ran the merger process with Sony Music. He previously held various leadership roles in European TV as CEO of RTL Interactive and Head of Program Acquisition/Distribution for RTL Television. He started his professional career as a Consultant for McKinsey.Thomas holds a BA and MA from Oxford University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a Doctorate in Corporate Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He studied as a concert pianist at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf, Germany.Career highlights: * Created significant value as venture investor and CEO * Transformed Sony Music digital revenue profile from zero to 50% of company * Co-founded leading music video platform VEVO * Led digital transformation at $20bn media company Bertelsmann * Ran merger of SONY MUSIC and BMG * Built #1 online platform for leading European TV broadcaster RTL

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Restaurants, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Frame.io — Frame.io is a cloud-based video collaboration platform that allows users to upload source media and assets into private workspaces.It is used by media companies to streamline their video review and collaboration process with teammates, clients, and a variety of stakeholders. It supports over over 1 million media professionals and companies bybringing together media and stakeholders in a single platform for efficient and intuitive collaboration.
  • Stagelink — Digital advertising as a service
  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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Graham Stirling
Angel · Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, RFID, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ticket ABC — Ticket ABC is a white label ticketing software and venue management solution used by over 120 venues, promoters, artists in 4 countries. Brand your account to have the same look and feel as your website, better understand your sales and customers with their graphical reporting tool and integrate with social media to sell tickets within anyFacebook page. Fanalytics (Ticket ABC's customer analytics tool) transforms all the customer data generated from selling tickets into a snapshot of your business so you know who your top customers are, where they are from and the ability to communicate and reward them for their loyalty.
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